Mr. Ksoft
Well-known member
I've been having bits and pieces shipped in this week and I'm testing them on my 6100. Since the hard drive is ridiculously limited, I bought an SCA drive and an adapter since I had read that this works.
Image of drive
Image of adapter (50pin side)
Image of adapter (SCA side)
So I plugged it in, and the system doesn't recognize it at all. It simply does not show up in anything. The drive does spin up properly and I hear it running just as any typical drive should, no weird sounds or anything. I've tried using HD SC Setup, Drive Setup (patched for non-Apple drives and non-patched), and also Lido 7. No errors either, just a blank spot. I have played with the setup a bit-- obviously with my current drive as SCSI ID 0 I set the adapter to ID 1 as a test (nothing), then 2 (nothing), even 3 since the CD drive had to be disconnected (nothing again). I also tried completely removing the main drive, setting the ID on the adapter to 0, and booting from CD or floppy-- also nothing.
Anyone worked with this before? Am I missing something? I can't say for sure if it is the drive (which seems like it should work being an old server drive and apparently was checked by the seller) or the adapter (which is probably cheap junk simply because they are low-volume sellers). I'm leaning toward the adapter just because of likelihood but I could have a dud drive-- but I don't have any other way of testing. If it's the adapter I would love to be pointed towards one that would work better.
Thanks in advance
Image of drive
Image of adapter (50pin side)
Image of adapter (SCA side)
So I plugged it in, and the system doesn't recognize it at all. It simply does not show up in anything. The drive does spin up properly and I hear it running just as any typical drive should, no weird sounds or anything. I've tried using HD SC Setup, Drive Setup (patched for non-Apple drives and non-patched), and also Lido 7. No errors either, just a blank spot. I have played with the setup a bit-- obviously with my current drive as SCSI ID 0 I set the adapter to ID 1 as a test (nothing), then 2 (nothing), even 3 since the CD drive had to be disconnected (nothing again). I also tried completely removing the main drive, setting the ID on the adapter to 0, and booting from CD or floppy-- also nothing.
Anyone worked with this before? Am I missing something? I can't say for sure if it is the drive (which seems like it should work being an old server drive and apparently was checked by the seller) or the adapter (which is probably cheap junk simply because they are low-volume sellers). I'm leaning toward the adapter just because of likelihood but I could have a dud drive-- but I don't have any other way of testing. If it's the adapter I would love to be pointed towards one that would work better.
Thanks in advance